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Joe Simon

Joe Simon – born in Simmesport, Louisiana on September 7, 1936 – was a Grammy Award-winning R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and producer. He began singing in his father’s Baptist Church but did not pursue a professional career in music until his family moved to Richmond, California in the late 1950s. Influenced by singers like Sam Cooke and Arthur Prysock, he joined the Golden West Gospel Singers, who then went secular in 1959 and recorded under the name the Golden Tones. Joe Simon went solo and scored his first solo hit, “My Adorable One”, in 1964. Throughout the rest of the 19...